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Hannah Sica
Professor Doyle
Humanities 1024
4 February 2024
Christianity traveled a long road before it was able to become the heavily worshipped religion that we know it as today. The followers had questions, and councils in early times were formed to debate the truth and provide answers to the people. There were many councils that arose in different times in order to provide a final verdict on the debates and help the followers understand their religion more clearly. These groups of men debated many topics and created Christianity as it now in the 21
st
Century. Among these debates, Jesus was repetitively chosen as a topic; these groups were in debate over Jesus’ substance and nature, or even whether Mary was truly the mother of a God.
The first of these councils to be talked about in detail was the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. This group was brought together by Emperor Constantine between the Athanasius group and the Arius group to talk about Jesus’ substance. The Athanasius group claimed that Jesus was of the same substance as God while the Arius group believed Jesus to be of a similar substance as
God. This controversy was put to a finish with the Athanasius being crowned the victor of this debate. As a result of this debate there was a document formed to communicate how Jesus is the same substance as God, and this document was named “The Nicene Creed”. Later, two other syndicates were called to council over the result of the Council of Nicaea. These two councils disagreed with what had been previously stated. The first of these two was the Council of Antioch in 341, then came the Council of Constantinople in 381. Both of these councils tried to reverse what was formed in the Council of Nicaea, yet in the end neither
